Download the Power BI Architecture Diagram

As a Data Platform Solution Architect for Microsoft, one of my jobs is to help teach my customers what our amazing tools can do and how those tools work. Interest in Power BI is blowing up and I’m seeing most of my customers express huge interest in this awesome tool. To help facilitate the conversation about how Power BI works and how it can help my customers, I put together this diagram.

Also, each text block in the black area to the right includes a link to the documentation on PowerBI.com for the specific component. So if I’m looking at the diagram and I want to gather more information on the Power BI Gateway – Enterprise, just click the text block or point #2.

Question – there appears to be no direct line between SSRS and databases. Given that is what many shops (like mine since we don’t have the gateway up yet) are actually doing a lot of today it seems odd that that’s also the very thing I don’t see.